Tag: fiction

• Hypothetical Evil

  I don’t like fictional stories where evil wins. I don’t like “what ifs?” about a choice between two evil options. The real world has plenty of actual evil and bad choices. The real world has enough unsolved murder, rape, theft, and lying without making hypothetical evil. Stories that normalize people getting away with crime just…

  Mark

  May 3, 2026

  rant, two cents

  choices, murder, evil, fiction, rape, hypothetical, crime

• Fancy Ideas

  One of the challenges with a blog is to write something new and interesting every day. This would be a little easier if I was just writing fiction. If for instance I were to say: The hairy plaid monster took the man as his wife. That is probably new. It might even be interesting. But…

  Mark

  March 7, 2025

  witness

  clarity, discover, fancy words, fiction, important, struggle, truth